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Financial Services and Commercial Litigation Associate Attorney

    Highlights

    Our Financial Services team has extensive experience defending financial services companies and others in cases premised on alleged violations of various consumer finance-related statutes such as the federal Fair Debt Collection Practice Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, and Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, as well as more generally applicable consumer protection statutes like the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act and various states' unfair trade practices laws, as they apply to the consumer financial services industry. Candidates must be licensed in the State of Texas, and will have strong writing and oral communication skills; the ability to learn new substantive legal topics as needed; familiarity with federal and state court practice; experience preparing answers, motions, and discovery; significant case management experience; a strong understanding of federal and state court procedural rules and practices; and clear and effective drafting and negotiating skills.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationDallas, TX
    IndustryLegal Services
    Company Size1,500 to 1,999 employees
    Year Founded1979
    Websitehttp://lewisbrisbois.com/

    Description

    Overview

    The Dallas, TX office of Lewis Brisbois, a full-service Am Law 100 firm, is actively seeking an attorney to handle a wide range of matters including commercial disputes and financial services litigation.

    The ideal candidate will have at least two (2) to seven (7) years of experience practicing civil litigation, preferably in the area of Financial Services or Business/Commercial Litigation. Candidates must be licensed in the State of Texas, and will have strong writing and oral communication skills; the ability to learn new substantive legal topics as needed; familiarity with federal and state court practice; experience preparing answers, motions, and discovery; significant case management experience; a strong understanding of federal and state court procedural rules and practices; and clear and effective drafting and negotiating skills. Hearing experience is a plus.

    Responsibilities include providing effective and reliable legal services to clients and supervising attorneys; conducting thorough factual and legal research and analysis; drafting pleadings and other case documents; attending hearings throughout Texas; managing matters from start to finish; and communicating professionally with clients and supervising attorneys.

    Lewis Brisbois' Complex Business & Commercial Litigation Practice comprises attorneys who regularly handle state and federal litigation, including appeals and regulatory proceedings for local, national, and international clients, as well as federal, state and local agencies. Clients include Fortune 500 corporations, national and international corporations, small and local businesses, and individuals and entrepreneurs. Our Financial Services team has extensive experience defending financial services companies and others in cases premised on alleged violations of various consumer finance-related statutes such as the federal Fair Debt Collection Practice Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, and Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, as well as more generally applicable consumer protection statutes like the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act and various states' unfair trade practices laws, as they apply to the consumer financial services industry.

    We offer competitive compensation and in addition, Lewis Brisbois offers a range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401k with employer match.

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    About Company

    Our national practice is sophisticated, multi-faceted and well-versed in current legal trends, while our individual state practices provide vast resources and knowledge of procedural and legal nuances. Lewis Brisbois offers legal practice in more than 35 specialties, and a multitude of sub-specialties associated with each practice area. Our attorneys have broad knowledge, expertise, and sensitivity to their clients’ unique needs. Through interaction among its practice groups, Lewis Brisbois provides a wide range of legal services to each client with a continuity of representation over multiple disciplines. We have built longstanding relationships with corporate and institutional clients based on our ability to provide comprehensive service on a national scale.

    At Lewis Brisbois, diversity is an integral part of our firm culture and our daily life. We accomplish diversity not by committee or initiative, but through the true and committed practice of hiring the best people for the job and consistently rewarding excellence. The success of these policies is reflected in the fact that Lewis Brisbois has repeatedly received national recognition for its commitment to embracing diversity. Lewis Brisbois is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse group of talented lawyers and staff, and demonstrates that commitment through non-discriminatory hiring, retention and promotion policies. The diversity of the firm’s client base is matched by the diversity of our attorneys.

    With offices from Los Angeles to New York, our attorneys reflect the communities in which they live. The firm’s culture has fostered a diverse group of professionals committed to promoting the best interests of our clients, our communities and the legal profession. We are committed to supporting diversity through new and ongoing relationships with minority and women-owned businesses.

    Lewis Brisbois is known for its commitment to principled advocacy, an unflinching work ethic, and unyielding recognition of our duty to provide the highest level of service to our clients, who choose us because we take the time to understand their business interests and philosophies. We have developed sophisticated proprietary risk evaluation and litigation management processes that many of our clients have incorporated into their business practices, and we help them manage and defend claims and litigation. As a result, they are avoiding and reducing losses that impact their bottom line.

    Our practice includes pre-suit counseling and problem solving based on a structured and accurate analysis of likely outcome. We know our clients’ objectives are often best served by a pre-suit resolution, and we are often judged by the advice and counsel we provide toward that end. However, when trial is the answer and in the client’s best interest, no law firm in this country understands and better executes a trial strategy than Lewis Brisbois. We are truly client driven and result oriented.

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